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| Book: | Sense and Sensibility |
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| Author: | Jane Austen |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
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Marianne Dashwood is young, flirtatious, and ready to meet a knight in shining armor. Her sister, Elinor, is more restrained—she knows that when it comes to romance, slow and steady wins the race. But while both seem to have found what they want, the path to happiness isn’t as straight as they first imagined. True love has a habit of breaking the rules and turning up when it’s least expected…
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Barnes and Noble
This first of Jane Austen’s published novels is the story of two starkly different English sisters: Elinor Dashwood, the epitome of prudence & self-control, and her younger, more impetuous sister Marianne, who embodies emotion, openness, & sheer enthusiasm.
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull’s-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters—the one with “sense”—she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen’s tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-
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